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That's a lot of sweat for one movie. So why Orlando? "Woolf created a believable, sensual world within an unrealistic story," Potter says. "In a light way, she dealt with some profound themes. Orlando's long life as a man, and then as a woman, lets you appreciate the essential human self that transcends genders. She just blows away the cobwebs of mystique about masculinity and femininity. When I first read the book, as a teenager, I found it such an exuberant liberation from any false notion of femaleness. And Orlando's 400-year life-span...
Timed to appear on the first anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, Race Matters is the first of West's eight books (including Breaking Bread, Insurgent Black Intellectual Life, co-authored by the black feminist writer bell hooks) intended for a general audience. Though far from his most profound writing, the slender collection of essays is laden with provocative observations on a broad range of racially loaded topics that have delighted and irritated people on both sides of the color line. West flays liberals and conservatives for trying to force blacks "to do all the 'cultural' and 'moral' work necessary...
...journalists who shamelessly drag trophy stars to the White House correspondents' dinner every spring), so naturally they are quick to detect a groupie instinct in Clinton, and to give a knee-jerk, pseudo-high-minded critique. But isn't George Will a TV performer? And is Sam Donaldson more profound than Richard Dreyfuss...
...Cannes awarded its top prize to a U.S. picture, while the rest of world cinema looked on in impotent envy. This year the Americans played supporting roles. It was not so much that a Jurassic Park-size blockbuster was withheld from the festival as that Hollywood is in a profound artistic funk. Vitality, confidence and storytelling swank have evaporated; the industry seems to be working on automatic pilot...
Working on the book triggers in Margaret profound discontent with the state of her life. Dissatisfied with domesticity, no longer content to be utterly reliant upon her husband, she begins challenging previously assumed verities. Convinced that her husband is having an affair with one or more of his undergraduates, she leaves him and seeks solace in the arms of various potential lovers. These include Lily, a chic bisexual who is exploring the butch-femme aesthetic, Martin, a Belgian electronics dealer and her dentist, Dr. Lipi...